A total of 6,471 students have won awards in the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro's (BSK) book reading programme last year.

Renowned poet Rafiq Azad is admitted to the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka following a stroke.

I haven't written a book review in a long time, because I didn't come across any that was out-of-the-box.

Very few brick kilns in Bangladesh have been built following the proper design, resulting in huge environmental pollution, experts said

Sometimes I walk away from plights in my life

Tobias Wolff would like to think his first published novel, “Ugly Rumours”, did not exist. It does not come up on any official list of his publications...

Rashna suddenly heard one of her classmates shout, “Look that's Abedin! They're going to kill him!” Rashna turned to see a young man on the ground and recognized Abedin immediately. He was their batch-mate, an attentive and serious student who

A week-long book fair will begin from January 10 on the premises of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).

Textbooks for visually impaired school students should be published by the education ministry in 2017, not by the social welfare ministry, a training session was told yesterday.

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.

Admittedly, we live in a milieu that comprises numerous sprinkled rudiments which keep crisscrossing each other in our personal-social-cultural-political existence.

Degradation of the natural environment and its impact on human lives is now visible all over the world.

Modernisation is not an easy process, but neither is its depiction (or description). Laurence Wylie's Village in the Vaucluse informs us how traditional society can go gently, yet Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart accents a more brutal face.

Time is running out fast.

The gates opened with a screech and I was out of the clinic, it's been over a month, the bright sun hit my eyes, I cringed. It was a

“You are an ass and the rest of your life you will remain one,” Rocky Mirza said, condescendingly blowing a ring of smoke at him, “We

A Chinese publisher pulls a translation of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's poems after it sparked controversy for racy content.

Blood Telegram is especially recommended for readers who were adults in those tumultuous days of 1971 and had suffered mental and physical torment while fleeing from the barbaric Pakistani killers. Each chapter of the book will bring back memories and readers will be able to relate them to their personal experiences.

Professor Rehman Sobhan and his publisher Daily Star Books deserve our congratulations for bringing out this collection of Professor Sobhan's writings which span a period of forty years from 1961 to 2000.

Science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 dystopian novel Logan's Run, passes away aged 86.